The president of Alabama’s Bishop State Community College, Yvonne Kennedy, who is also a Democratic state representative, sent all of the $94,400 of discretionary state funds she received as a legislator in 2003 to a private college foundation she runs, according to the The Birmingham News.

Ms. Kennedy had said in her request for the funds that the group, the Bishop State Community College Foundation, needed the money to build a laboratory for the college’s culinary-arts students, the newspaper said. But the expense was not reported in the foundation’s financial records, which instead documented spending on scholarships for hundreds of students.

Last year, state auditors had discovered that Bishop State had given state aid to people who did not attend the college. The interim chancellor of the community-college system told the newspaper that his staff would begin an investigation into issues at Bishop State.

Alabama’s community-college system has recently weathered a series of scandals. Last month, the State Board of Education fired Roy W. Johnson, the system’s chancellor, because of concerns about possible nepotism, whether he was being candid with the board, and his ability to lead during an investigation of corruption within the system (The Chronicle, July 13).

Among other problems that surfaced this summer, state and federal investigators accused State Rep. Bryant Melton Jr., who worked at Shelton State Community College, of funneling $85,000 in state funds through a foundation with ties to Shelton State and using some of the money to pay gambling debts. Mr. Melton, a Democrat, agreed to plead guilty in the case (The Chronicle, July 10).